Jill L McNitt-Gray – författare

This book contains in-depth discussions on the fundamental biomechanical and physiological principles underlying the acts of throwing, shooting, hitting, kicking, and tackling in sports, as well as vision training, sports injury, and rehabilitation. Sections covered include golf, tennis, baseball, football and soccer, basketball, and performance and rehabilitation. This new edition includes new chapters on body and arm contributions to ball trajectory in baseball, concussion and the visual snow syndrome, visual performance in sports, kinematic analysis of baseball pitching, and more.This book is essential reading for biomedical engineers, physicists, sport scientists, and physiologists who wish to update their knowledge of biomechanical and biomedical principles and their applications to sports. The book can be used in a one-semester senior or graduate-level course in biomechanics, biomedical engineering, sports technology, sports medicine, or exercise physiology.

This book provides an overview of biomedical applications in sports, including reviews of the current state-of-the art methodologies and research areas. Basic principles with specific case studies from different types of sports as well as suggested student activities and homework problems are included. Equipment design and manufacturing, quantitative evaluation methods, and sports medicine are given special focus.Biomechanical Principles and Applications in Sports can be used as a textbook in a sports technology or sports engineering program, and is also ideal for graduate students and researchers in biomedical engineering, physics, and sports physiology. It can also serve as a useful reference for professional athletes and coaches interested in gaining a deeper understanding of biomechanics and exercise physiology to improve athletic performance.